Please note: This timeline is based on information originally compiled by MerlynPrime, who has been adding to it as time allows. Many of the dates are assigned or estimated rather than being directly from the books: such dates are footnoted as "Hypothetical date."[1] Other dates may be based on such dates, and are marked as such.[2] The notes marked ♘ are MerlynPrime's. You can find him on Facebook, or on Twitter (@JoshuaWMurcray).
The prehistoric period in the history of Velgarth encompasses the tumultuous events of the Mage Wars and the Cataclysm. This article plugs into the Timeline. The letters "BF" mean Before the Founding of Valdemar.
The date of the Cataclysm identified as occurring 500 years before the events of Into the West.[3]
During this time, events of the following works occur:
- Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar: "Under the Vale" Essay
- The Black Gryphon
- Choices: "Woman's Need Calls Me"
- Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar: "Errold's Journey"
- The White Gryphon
- The Silver Gryphon
Unidentified years before the Mage Wars
The magical, sentient sword Need is created.[4][5]
Note: Darkwind recognizes Need as a "pre-Mage-War Artifact"
Date source: Winds of Fate, Chapter Twenty-two
Elderly Mage-smith Lashan, formerly an experienced fighter, had created Need by putting her soul into a bespelled sword so that an untrained novice, Vena, can successfully fight.[5]
Need and Vena rescue the kidnapped survivors of a massacre at the Sisterhood of Spell and Sword enclave.[4][5]
990 BF (Before Founding)
The Murasa Emperor Shelass accepts kestra'chern into the change-resistant Haighlei Empire. Their rules, customs, roles and ranks become fixed at that time.
Date source: The White Gryphon: Chapter Three
Note: 500 years before the Eclipse in 490 BF
989 - 570 BF
During the centuries before the Mage Wars, the art of magic develops beyond rough journeyman-level through courageous experimentation and frequent casualties. As knowledge is passed along, more powerful Adept Mages emerge. Their abilities are quickly embroiled in politics and warfare. Adepts learn to combine the spellwork of multiple mages into a Great Work, but it is still hazardous. A young mage named Urtho organizes "salons" to share knowledge of spells and energies.
Event information: Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar: "Essay: Under the Vale"
Some Adept Mages turn their skills to breeding animals, or improving or creating new creatures from existing ones. The kyree are developed and populations are planted in the wild. Adept Khal Herta uplifts the hertasi into semi-sentience, and Urtho continues that work. He also created a larger but similar race, the tyrill, as well as the tervardi. Urtho's greatest work, the Gryphons, will take 40 years of work by 300 mages and their assistant staff.
Event information: Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar: "Essay: Under the Vale"
570 BF
The Mage Wars era begins. "Native magic fields have been harnessed like never before by cabals and individuals."
Event information: Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar: "Essay: Under the Vale"
Note: The extent of Kiyamvir Ma'ar's involvement in the Mage Wars before rising to power in Predain is unclear.
Firebirds come into being in this era.
Note: Wizard Gervase will one day write a history of the Mage Wars which hints that firebirds were deliberately bred to be weapons.
Event information: Oathblood: "Wings of Fire"
545 BF
Low-level mage Melysatra becomes the bearer of the sentient magical sword Need[6][7]
540 BF (est)
Urtho's team finally produces gryphons. Under Urtho's direction they continue to design more gryphons based on various types of raptors: broadwings, goshawks, suntails, etc.[1][8][9]
Urtho controls the natural reproduction of the gryphons by keeping the requirements secret, and exaggerating the spell that must be cast. He only grants fertility to gryphons who have proved themselves, wanting to ensure that they will make good parents.[2][10]
526 BF (est)
Amberdrake is born to a Kaled'a'in family that has lived in the city of Therium, in Tantara, for generations, as agents for the Kaled'a'in.[2][11][12]
521 BF (est)
Gryphon Kechara is born. She is a powerful Mindspeaker and Empath.[2][13][14]
Kechara is the first of a new gryfalcon design model, but she is "misborn" with physical and mental defects. Urtho names her from the Kale'd'ain word ke'chara, "beloved," and keeps her safe from bullying in his Tower, not expecting her to live long.[8]
Gryphon Skandranon Rashkae is born.[2][15][16]
Skan is the first born of Urtho's final new gryphon design model.[2][8]
520 - 517 BF
517 BF (est)
Gryphon Zhaneel is born. She is smaller and has design differences that lead others to believe she is misborn.[1][17][18]
Zhaneel is actually the first proper gryfalcon, since Kechara was a misborn attempt of the type.[19]
516-514 BF
513 BF
Amberdrake is thirteen years old.[2]
Amberdrake is sent to the College of Chirurgeons in Predain. Dismissing the existence of Gifts, they teach him how to set bones, mix medicines, and diagnose and treat illnesses. His Empathy picks up so much emotion from the many patients that he is constantly ill, and the chirurgeons' treatments make him sicker. As a "barbarian" Kaled'a'in, Drake is subject to bullying.[11]
512 BF
Amberdrake is fourteen years old.[2]
Kyamvir Ma'ar has united dozens of warring tribes and touts them as part of his Superior Breed. He raises an army of followers and supporters in his quest for power. Students cite Ma'ar's sayings as an excuse for persecuting Amberdrake. Ma'ar is made Prime Minister of Predain. When the King of Predain dies without an heir, Ma'ar crowns himself. He enacts laws restricting "foreigners."[11]
511 BF
Winter
Amberdrake is fifteen years old when he hears that Ma'ar's soldiers are going house to house and taking people away. He flees the College and heads cross-country towards home, sick, penniless, and ill-equipped for such a journey.[11]
Ma'ar eliminates anyone who opposes his rule—and anyone who might oppose war with the neighboring lands.[11]
Amberdrake arrives at his home in Therium starving and fevered, but finds his family gone. Ma'ar's troops will arrive in one day; everyone is in a panic, loading their households onto wagons and fleeing. Amberdrake's lifelong neighbors spurn him. He is picked up by Silver Veil, a kestra'chern.[11]
Silver Veil helps Amberdrake heal and teaches him her trade. She finds safe routes for her household as they continue to flee, usually through brutally conquered territory, sometimes bribing their way through a checkpoint by offering her services.[11]
(Est:) Zhaneel's parents die when she is "just fledged." Whoever took over her care is unaware that she is not misborn but is a new type of gryphon, does not train her how to understand and take advantage of her differences, and does not protect her from bullying.[2][17][15][20]
510 BF
Twenty years before the Great Eclipse Ceremony.[21]
Spring
Silver Veil's entourage finally reaches friendly lands. Amberdrake's goal diverges from hers at this point: he needs to go to the Kaled'a'in Clans at Ka'venusho to seek his family, but her safest destination is south, to a "promised position" in the Haighlei Empire[11][22]
Silver Veil finds a new master for Amberdrake to continue his apprenticeship, an older man named Lorshallan, who teaches him to Heal and to use his Empathy as they journey towards Ka'venusho.[11]
Amberdrake and Lorshallen reach the Clans at Ka'venusho.[11]
Amberdrake completes his kestra'chern apprenticeship under Lorshallan as a gryphon feather-painter[15]
Urtho sends Amberdrake a glossy red and silver satin cover upon his graduation from apprenticeship.[23]
The direct conflict between Urtho and Ma'ar begins when Ma'ar's conquests of lands beyond Predain reach the border of Tantara.[24]
Ma'ar detonates a fear spell in the palace of King Leodhan of Tantara, but Lady Cinnabar is shielded and is able to contact Urtho for aid. The king and nobles flee due to the spell.[11]
Date source: The Black Gryphon, Chapter Six
Urtho summons Skandranon to use his Mage-Sight to search the palace's secret passages for the source of the fear spell: a dyrstaf.[25]
Urtho takes command of Tantara and its armies to fight Ma'ar, and puts out a call for volunteers.[11][23][19][21]
Amberdrake joins Urtho right away.[11][26][19][27]
"All the Clans came as fast as they could."[19][11][28]
Urtho's army starts losing land in the Mage Wars[29][30]
Urtho doesn't have enough mages to fight Ma'ar's, so he is forced to hire mercenaries like Conn Levas.[31]
509-503 BF
502 BF
Skandranon faces Adept Kiyamvir Ma'ar for the first time. Ma'ar peels the skin off Skan's wingmates, and Skan is unable to counterspell him. Skan limps home broken-winged and full of nightmares.[29][32]
Skandranon sees some fledglings bullying a "small, awkward, adolescent" (Zhaneel) and breaks up the noisy altercation.[17][33]
Zhaneel wants to fly for Urtho's army, but she is not selected since she is seen as misborn. She simply moves into a wing and starts flying back patrols that are usually assigned to fledglings or as punishment.[1][15][34]
501 BF
500 BF
Note: This is the year of the Cataclysm, when Urtho's Tower and Ma'ar's headquarters in the Royal Palace of Tantara are destroyed.[1][35]
General Corani had been assigned at Stelvi Pass until now; only three dozen leagues from Urtho's Tower.[29]
Six Days Later
Skandranon (Skan) volunteers to scout out the enemy army and to try and capture the new magical weapon. [29]
Five Days Later
Premonitions and nightmares among the more sensitive and marginally Gifted among the Healers and kestra'chern awaken them to the knowledge that Urtho's army has lost Stelvi Pass.[29]
One Day Later
Skandranon arrives at the Pass of Stelvi and spies on the enemy.[29]
Laisfaar is now the enemy army's quarters.[29]
Skan infiltrates the camp and kills the Weaponsmaster. He captures the new weapon that had been used to take Stelvi Pass.[29]
Skan is chased by six makaar and the makaar leader, Kili.[29]
The Next Day
Pre-dawn
Skan makes it back to camp badly injured & having swallowed the magical weapon. Healer Tamsin, Lady Cinnabar and all of his friends work to save his life.[31]
At Sunset
Urtho comes to visit a convalescing Skan.[17]
Skan thinks that no one knows Urtho's race or age: He could be 60 or 600. Skan thinks there might be Kaled'a'in blood in Urtho's veins.[17]
Zhaneel kills three makaar all by herself.[17]
The next day
Amberdrake visits Skandranon. Urtho's forces are unable to retake Stelvi Pass, so Skan predicts another retreat. Eventually they will have to abandon Urtho's Tower.
Urtho assigns Zhaneel to carry a weapon he has designed to destroy Ma'ar's latest weapons used by the troops at Stelvi Pass.[10]
GAP: MORE THINGS OCCUR HERE
(unidentified time later)
General Farle is assassinated.
"Ma'ar himself has moved into the Palace and made it his headquarters."
Urtho orders evacuations of non-combatants, assigning six permanent Gates, under the pretense of spreading out targets. He gives Shaiknam his command back, but assigns all of the mages and non-humans to other commanders.[13]
Shaiknam betrays Urtho by letting Ma'ar's forces through his lines.[25]
Conn Levas throws poison miranda thorns at Urtho, dooming him to die. Urtho's magical equipment is set to self-destruct upon his death, so he orders immediate evacuation.[25]
300 people plus Errold and Master Thomas Gate away.[36]
Date source: "Errold's Journey" by Catherine S. McMullen in Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar
Melysatra and Need escape through a Gate, but get dumped in a wilderness alone.[6] (Also see note[37])
Event information: "Woman's Need Calls Me" by Mercedes Lackey in Choices
The Third and Sixth armies are cut off from retreat and have to fend for themselves.[25]
"Of all of the gryphon-wings flying for Mage Urtho, fully half of them" never reach the k'Leshya evacuation Gate[38]
Mages with the remnants of Urtho's Third Army (which includes gryphons) create a Gate which takes them far to the North. They will eventually found the nation of Iftel.
Event information: Storm Breaking, Chapter 8
Some of Urtho's people and mercenaries (very likely the Sixth Army) use a Gate but are flung far, far out east, to a territory that will eventually become "the heart of" the Eastern Empire.
Note: The modern Empire's official histories do not mention the Gate, stating that the Empire was founded by mercenaries who "marched off" to conquer land of their own.
Event information: Storm Warning, Chapter 14
Hypothesis: It is possible that this group later merged with or conquered the High King who later became Emperor.[39]
Next Day
Urtho tries to lure Ma'ar through a Gate to his Tower, hoping the destruction upon Urtho's death will kill Ma'ar. Instead, Skandranon delivers Urtho's ultimate weapon, which will dissolve the bonds of spells, to Ma'ar at the Palace. Ma'ar responds by killing himself, saying he will live forever.[25]
Skandranon, Kechara and Aubri dive through Urtho's Gate back to the Tower. Aubri suggests that Urtho repurpose the gate for a new destination.[25]
At the k'Leshya site, Amberdrake sees a great flash of light in the East, turning "night into full day for one long, horrible moment." Everyone assumes it is Urtho's Tower, not knowing about the destruction of Ma'ar's Palace. Urtho redirects the last-minute gate to the k'Leshya site, and Kechara, Aubri and Skandranon tumble through it. Then "the Eastern horizon erupted with fire - again" as Urtho's Tower self-destructs upon his death.[25]
Master Thomas and Errold see the flash and assume it was Urtho's Tower, which was the only explosion they expected.[36][40][41]
Half-an-Hour Later
The Mage Storms hit the hastily erected shields and change magic forever.[36]
Date source: "Errold's Journey" by Catherine S. McMullen in Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar
The Mage Storms last for a day.[36]
Half a Day After the Towers Explode
Far to the east, the first wave of Mage Storms sweeps across eight county-sized kingdoms ruled by a High King in what will later become the Eastern Empire. He shields his mage equipment, expending the lives of half of his mages, and after the Storms has the only magical power left, paving the way to crown himself Emperor.
Date source: Beyond, Chapter Four
Note: It is not explicitly stated whether this is High King Sonat the First, who ennobled the first Duke of Valdemar, Lerren. Kordas Valdemar says his own pedigree "dated back to when the Emperor had merely been a High King." He could mean the office, not the person.[42]
Changecircles appear randomly throughout the land, places charged with magic, containing strange plants and animals that have been merged together. Other displacement circles occur, where no magic lingers but a foreign circular area of land has appeared in a place it doesn't belong, such as a circular section of forest in the middle of a meadow. The original area of land has vanished, presumably swapped with the area that has replaced it, so there might be a circular meadow in the middle of a forest.[6]
Several Days Later
Errold meets Proouw, a change-cat of human intelligence.[36]
Two Days Later
Master Thomas & Errold find the spot where they build Errold's Grove[36]
Date source: "Errold's Journey" by Catherine S. McMullen in Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar
Melysatra and Need travel away from the epicenter of the Mage Storms, because the ongoing effects are weaker with distance. They assist people with troubles, using her mage powers and Need's combat skills. But Melysatra has borne Need for 45 years and is ready to settle down, maybe open a tavern.[6]
Days or Weeks after the Cataclysm
Melysatra and Need come to a tall, ancient forest, and find a village threatened by a Beast. Three of Urtho's soldiers, from Warrik's Wolves, are there for the same reason. They camp for the night in a ten to fifteen acre field, a perfect circle that also cuts into nearby trees, obviously displaced. The village tavern and inn was formerly in the area, and vanished (along with the unpopular tavernkeeper) in the displacement.[6]
The Next Day
The group follows a tracker to the Beast, which was clearly a victim of a changecircle, being a terrible mesh of a colddrake and a makaar. It charges the team, knocking out two of the soldiers. Suddenly Need demands to be given to Pol. Melysatra is confused as Pol is clearly male, but she hands over the sword. The three of them kill the Beast, and Melysatra realizes that Pol was born in the wrong body. Need offers to use the magic of the changecircle to transform Pol to female, but it is a terrible risk. Pol agrees wholeheartedly, and carries Need into the circle. Melysatra gathers up the unconscious men and they make camp.[6]
The Following Day
Pol, transformed into a female body, emerges from the circle bearing an exhausted Need. The village is amazed at Pol's "sacrifice" to save them. They throw a feast for the team.[6]
The Next Day
Pol's fellow soldiers are bewildered by the change, and Pol and Melysatra realize that Pol needs to make her own way. Need explains that Pol should simply exert her will for whatever magic she needs, as Need is exhausted and may sleep for a long time. As Pol departs at Need's silent beckoning, Melysatra arranges to build the tavern she has wanted.[6]
Note: There are differing stories about Need's survival of the Cataclysm. Centuries later, Shaman Tre'valen, discussing a different topic, says, "The blade may not have wanted you to know ... Certainly, if you contradicted her will, she would not be so free with revealing secrets." - Winds of Change, Chapter Two
499 BF
Skandranon, Urtho's non-humans, and the entire k'Leshya clan arrive at the cliffs that they will make into their home, White Gryphon.[43]
Date source: The White Gryphon, Chapter One
496 BF
The other nine tribes of the Kaled'a'in return to the site of Urtho's Tower, finding only a vast blackened crater. They meet to discuss their next move. Contention arises over the continued use of magic[44]
Event information: Winds of Fate, Chapter Sixteen
Days Later
Agreement cannot be reached, and the clans divide over the magic issue. The event becomes known as the Sundering of the Clans. The five clans choosing to use magic, now calling themselves the Taylesederas (Brothers of the Hawk) depart, heading north.[44]
The Next Day
The four remaining clans shunning magic plan to pray to the Star-Eyed, but calling her requires the lives of an elder from each clan: the First Sacrifice.[44]
A Month Later
The Elders sacrifice themselves to call her, and the Goddess answers. She agrees to provide a homeland, but obligates the clans to forever guard Urtho's magical artifacts from those who might use them. She creates the Dhorisha Plains, and designates the four clans as the Shin'a'in.[44]
In the north, the Taylesederas Clans find themselves in trouble. Beleaguered by strange beasts and hostile plant life, they have no time to hunt or grow food. Like their plains brethren, they pray to the Goddess. She gives them the knowledge they need to create Heartstones and Vales for sanctuary, but in return charges them to cleanse the lands, destroying evil creatures and any mage weapons they find, and find shelter and safety for the innocent. When an area is cleansed, the clan must move on and repeat the process.[45]
495 BF (est)
High King Sonat the First awards the title Duke of Valdemar to a man named Lerren.[1][42]
Note: Family legend states the Dukedom of Valdemar was a reward for founding the Charger line of horses used by the Knights of the Realm.
Note: Speculative date. Note that although Lerren is a mage, he was not sacrificed during the Cataclysm to protect the High King's magical equipment. The ennobling is then further speculated to have occurred after the Cataclysm, yet before Sonat crowned himself Emperor.
Note: It is not explicitly stated whether Sonat the First is the specific High King who rode out the Cataclysm, or before. Kordas Valdemar says his own pedigree "dated back to when the Emperor had merely been a High King." He could mean the office, not the person. Also, the time it took for the Cataclysmic High King to crown himself Emperor is not supplied.
490 BF
It has been ten years since the magical Cataclysm.[43]
Date source: The White Gryphon, Chapter One
A ship from the Haighlei Empire arrives at White Gryphon, claiming ownership of the land and directing the clan to leave. Judeth refuses on the city's behalf, and offers to make an alliance.[46]
Windsong, daughter of Amberdrake and Winterhart, is two years old.[46]
Two weeks later
The diplomatic party from White Gryphon arrives in the Haighlei Empire for negotiations. (date cite needed)
Skandranon is accused when a series of murders occurs. Amberdrake is accused next.(event cites needed)
(GAP: Other events occur)
The Eclipse
During the Eclipse Ceremony, the Emperor makes multiple changes to Haighlei society, which foster connections to White Gryphon and allow him to marry Silver Veil
Event information: The White Gryphon
- Duke Lerren of the Eastern Empire, who is a mage and also a botanist, discovers a unique fungus, possibly in a Changecircle. Experimenting, he accidentally finds out it can fuse with a coating of vegetable matter into a waterproof solid. The Duchy uses it to make barge hulls, which eventually become a major export.[1][47]
Note: Arbitrary hypothetical date
Event information: Beyond, Chapter Four
480 BF
Windsong announces she wants to be called Silverblade from now on[48]
Note: She is twelve years old.
Event information: The Silver Gryphon, Chapter One
475 BF
It has been "over 12 years" since the Eclipse Ceremony.[48]
Hypothesis: It may be 15 years after, to allow Silverblade to be seventeen years old, rather than fourteen.
Magic has been working reliably for several years, but Gates are still seen as risky.[48]
Windsong/Silverblade, now going by the name Blade, is seventeen years old.[2]
Amberdrake is 51 years old.[2][49]
Amberdrake's daughter Blade and Skandranon's son Tadrith are assigned to duty at a remote outpost.[50]
Event information: The Silver Gryphon
They are attacked by mage-drinking wyrsa. Hampered by their injuries, they struggle for survival. The rescue mission also incurs losses before their fathers find them.[50]
110 BF
The Founding era events that begin in 110 BF are included on the Founding era timeline page.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 ♘ Hypothetical date
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 Based on other hypothetical dates.
- ↑ Previously, it was estimated as 1000 BF. Mage Ponu joked in Chapter 4 of Beyond that historical events are frequently approximated as "a thousand years" ago rather than actual dates.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Winds of Fate, Chapter 14
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Winds of Change, Chapter 6
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 6.7 Choices, "Woman's Need Calls Me"
- ↑ A few weeks or months after the Cataclysm, Melysatra "had been Need's bearer for four decades now and was well into a fifth"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Nine
- ↑ Creating gryphons took 40 years.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Eleven
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 11.12 11.13 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Six
- ↑ Basis: Amberdrake leaves school when he is 15. He should be at least 16 when Silver Veil leaves and Ma'ar attacks Tantara in 1010 BF, 20 years prior to the Great Eclipse. This makes him at least 26 at the Cataclysm.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Sixteen
- ↑ ☼ Urtho says she is as old as Skandranon.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Four
- ↑ ☼ Extrapolated date: Amberdrake thinks Skan is "several years" older than Zhaneel.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Three
- ↑ ☼ Extrapolated date: Skan remembers her as a "small, awkward, adolescent" fledgling trainee, "a year or two" before the Cataclysm
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Thirteen
- ↑ Winds of Fate, chapter 4. Treyvan and Hydona's gryphlets are "fledged but not flying yet, and still sub-adult" when they are 6 or 7 years old.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 The White Gryphon, Chapter Two: Ten years after the Cataclysm, Amberdrake says, "At the start of the war with Ma'ar—had that really been twenty years ago?—she had been heading south."
- ↑ The White Gryphon, Chapter Two
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Five
- ↑ Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar: "Under the Vale" Essay
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 25.5 25.6 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Seventeen
- ↑ ☼ "Amberdrake answered at once."
- ↑ Amberdrake has been with Urtho since "right after the High King collapsed."
- ↑ "Eventually, all of the Clans came to settle at the base of Urtho's Tower."
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 29.3 29.4 29.5 29.6 29.7 29.8 The Black Gryphon, Chapter One
- ↑ ♘ By the time of the Cataclysm, Skandranon says they have been losing border towns for half a generation. Also, at the time of the Eclipse in 990 the war with Ma'ar began "twenty years ago."
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 The Black Gryphon, Chapter Two
- ↑ Twenty months before the Cataclysm.
- ↑ ☼ Hypothetical date based on being "a year or two" before the Cataclysm
- ↑ Specific age and date are unknown.
- ↑ ♘ Mage Ponu jokes in Beyond Chapter Four that people call any historical event "a thousand years" ago, but Into the West repeatedly specifies that it was 500.
- ↑ 36.0 36.1 36.2 36.3 36.4 36.5 Sun in Glory and Other Tales of Valdemar: "Errold's Journey" by Catherine S. McMullen
- ↑ Note: Need also told a different story, in which she was packed into a shielded casket and survived the Cataclysm protected in a shielded temple to Bestet. (Storm Breaking, Chapter Four.) There are multiple possible reasons why Need may have chosen to tell different stories about her survival: her own amusement, keeping Pol's story private, confusion due to her weakness, etc. Centuries later, Shaman Tre'valen, discussing a different topic, says, "The blade may not have wanted you to know ... Certainly, if you contradicted her will, she would not be so free with revealing secrets." (Winds of Change, Chapter Two)
- ↑ Winds of Fury, Chapter 6
- ↑ Beyond, Chapter 4
- ↑ ☼ The evacuation parties knew that Urtho's Tower would be destroyed. None of them knew about Urtho's final weapon that he gave to Skan; even Urtho didn't know it would be used right away
- ↑ ♘ According to the official maps, Errold's Grove is in the northern part of Valdemar. This means the flash they see is actually that of Ma'ar's Citadel and not Urtho's Tower. The document may have overlooked the second flash, from Urtho's Tower, or they may have been too far away to see it, or the flash of Ma'ar's Citadel may have blocked out any light from the Tower
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 Beyond, Chapter Nine
- ↑ 43.0 43.1 The White Gryphon, Chapter One
- ↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 Winds of Fate, Chapter Sixteen
- ↑ Winds of Change, Chapter One
- ↑ 46.0 46.1 The White Gryphon, Chapter Three
- ↑ Beyond, Chapter Four
- ↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 The Silver Gryphon, Chapter One
- ↑ Amberdrake's age is guesstimated as 26 years old at the Cataclysm. He left school at 15 and was on the road for at least a year before joining Urtho.
- ↑ 50.0 50.1 The Silver Gryphon